Discovery Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy center
for national and international affairs. The Institute's mission is to
make a positive vision of the future practical. The Institute discovers
and promotes ideas in the common sense tradition of representative government,
the free market and individual liberty. Its mission is promoted through
books, reports, legislative testimony, articles, public conferences
and debates, plus media coverage and the Institute's own publications
and website. Current projects explore the fields of technology, science
and culture, reform of the law, national defense, the environment and
the economy, the future of democratic institutions, transportation,
religion and public life, government entitlement spending, foreign affairs
and cooperation within the bi-national region of "Cascadia."